Christine MacNeil investigates a strange noise in her attic in The Exorcist – Nancy Thompson brings killer Freddy Krueger from her dream into the real world – Jack Nicholson’s deranged writer peers through a hole in a door he has just created have the scariest bit that a drain a heady perspiration of fear through the spine.
In a recent survey made by the Website Play.com, these scenes have been found to be the scariest. The hosts made a step-by-step process to find out the result. First, they received the vote for the scariest movie. And, then used heart rate monitors to find out which scenes delivered the greatest chills.
The Shining scored the scariest scene with A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Exorcist in second and third place respectively.
The three scariest moments thus deduced are –
- Jack Nicholson’s deranged writer peers through a hole in a door he has just created – The Shining making a shattering 28.2% increase in average heart rate.
- Nancy Thompson brings killer Freddy Krueger from her dream into the real world – A Nightmare On Elm Street making an increase of 26.7
- “Attic noises” from The Exorcist makes it around 24.80% increase.
The 10 most scariest movies as per the poll are:
- The Shining (1980)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
- Ring (aka Ringu) (1998)
- Alien (1979)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1990)
- Poltergeist (1982)
- Insidious (2010)
- Halloween (1978)
- Saw (2004)
